The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

WIoGINs, the weather prophet, Is living
at Lynn, Mass.
The prohibition canvass in ATLANTA is
waxing very warm.
LETTERS of President Zachary Taylor are
worth from sl5 to $25.
EvANaEL1st MOODY has decided to start
for India early in 1883.
A METEOR "as big as the moon'shot over
st. Cloud, Mimi, tits said.
'OH, put bomb in your mouth" is the
latest slang for 'shut up"
Next spring the Shah Of Persia will
make another tour of Europe.
Mrs. GARFIELD, in England ranks social
ly "with the wives OF knights"
AN aerolite weighing three tons fell in
the street at Amsterdam, N. Y.
THE fisheries commission is now in
Washington about ready for work.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN occupies five rooms
at the Arlington Hotel, Washington.
Mrs. You've, of Creston, Ia, is complet-
ing bed spread made wholly Of spool cot
ton.
CINCINNATI physicians claim to have dis
covered typhoi bacillus in Ohio river
water.
Macon, GA, has started memorial fund
Tor the benefit of Jefferson Davis and
family.
A COPPER coin in his pocket turned aside
abullet fired at California lad by high
wayman.
IT is now rumored that Prince Alexander
of Battenberg is to marry Princess Louise
of Wales.
EDITOR O'BR1EN has baffled his jailer
and got into suit of respectable clothing,
smuggled by some friend.
UP to December A. 1885, there had been
granted to women by the United States let
ters patent for /, 1886 inventions.
A MAN named Pendulum, charged with
murder has been acquitted by Kentucky
jury, and so he won't have to swing.
IT is particularly pleasant to mako q
note Of the fact that the corn crop of this
country turned out an abundant yield.
JOHN l.. SULL VAN, has been invited
by the Prince Of Wales to give private
exhibition of his strength and prowess
IT is hoped to dedicate the Gambetta
monument in Paris on January 1, next, the
fifth anniversary of that statcsman's
death.
IT is said the demand for small coin is so
great this fall that the Philadelphia Mint,
working day and night can not keep up
with it.
ONE Teddy Wick OF Chelsea, England
has won Els and Il silver medal by shaving
seventeen men in seven seconds less thar
an hour.
THE next anniversary of the execution OF
John Brown is to be celebrated by the
New York Anarchists with speeches and
aparade.
A PROUD father in Duquesne, Pa, has
named his first boy Thomas Benton Schnat-
erly Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty
Flemming
A DETROIT man has an Anarchist dog
that hows night and day, and has carried
off and hid every rope wherewith he was
to be hanged.
ALBERT DELFT, the noted French novelist
and dramatist, is a native Of Louisiana,
and was once engaged in journalism In
New Orleans.
"JoEn JONES, of Georgia, brothef OF
''Sam" Jones, has made his debut as an
evangelist" and is described as the live.
liest one yet seen.
A CHICAGO physician has collection of
several hundred bullets which he extracted
from the bodies of Union soldiers who were
shot during the war.
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coming from California on the double
quick to be ready for distribution in the
East during holiday time.
ONE Of the tallest men in the South died
few days ago near Augusta, Ga. His
name was William Skinner, and his height
was seven feet six inches.
A PIECE OF timber, taking up three fiat
cars, seventy-fve feet long and thirty-one
in, ntn hnn, 1nl
Youngstown, O., destined for the Panama
canal
HoRATro J. SrRAauE claims to be the old.
est United States consul as far as length
Of service is concerned. He was appointed
to the consulate at Gibraltar forty-one
years ago.
date for school commissioner of Wayne
County, N. Y, has engaged herself in
marriage to the young lawyer who man
aged her canvass.
A MOVEMENT has started in New York to
bring about a conference Of representa-
tives of the maritime nations looking to
measures for the greater security of life
and property at sea.
ANENr Thanksgiving day it is observed
that the national observance of that pleas.
uho anniversary iS W De uCcreulUeu TO the
efforts of Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale, late edit
or of Godey's Lady Book.
THE seven thousand volumes which con-
stituted MIR. Beecher's library brought only
$4,000 at the public sale. This sum was
swelled to s27, 600, however, by the sale of
paintings, bric-a-brac, etc.
AT its approaching convention the Ma.
tional Butter, Egg and Cheese Association
will endeavor to provide some measure
by which eggs will be sold every where by
the pound instead of by the dozen.
IL the tenants on certain Irish estates
persist in their refusal to pay their rent
until MIR. O'Brien is liberated, the land
lord interest may yet force the govern
ment to produce those missing trousers.
Mrs. WINIPRED EGAN, of Wilbur, is the
oldest woman in the State of New York.
She was born in Kings County, Ireland,
1O5 years ago, and came to this country in
1852 Her weight is only ninety pounds.
NINE. BoUCIcAuLT, the great Partisan
shop-keeper, has given about 81, ,OOO, 600 as
q pension fund for her employees. She has
also founded library and reading-room,
and she gives her employees a share in the
business.
A RECENT useful invention Is that OF an
improved kind of heel for boots and shoes,
lifted with an adjustable wear plate, by
which uneven wear of the heel or sole is
prevented, and the durability OF the foot